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Wildfire solutions

The following selections bring together a range of solutions that address wildfires and bushfires across different contexts and scales.

It includes approaches that reduce exposure, based on proper planning, design, governance, and community-based action. The examples highlight how wildfire risk can be managed through integrated, risk-informed measures that prioritise an all-of-society approach.

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Putting out wildfires: how peat restoration has reduced fire risk in Indonesia’s tropical forests

Preventing peatland fires depends on peatland restoration and reducing conditions that enable fires to spread. Indonesia’s experience provides lessons for protecting vulnerable ecosystems and communities globally.

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Wildfire evacuation sign
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Just weeks before devastating wildfires hit, Spokane practiced a mass evacuation – the drill paid off

Wildfire evacuations are often more complex than they seem. Experience from Spokane shows that evacuation drills help residents prepare, improve traffic management and warning systems, and can save lives when fast-moving fires threaten communities.

Conversation Media Group, the
Fire in the background in the Palisades neighborhood, LA, USA (2025)
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Some Los Angeles homes made it through the firestorm. Here's how

Within the wreckage in the aftermath of the Los Angeles fires, some homes are still standing, seemingly untouched. More often than not, fire experts are finding those homeowners took key precautions that likely saved their houses from burning.

NPR
2023 Canadian wildfires in Nova Scotia
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After years of wildfires, Algeria tames the flames

In Algeria's Tizi Ouzo, new planes, a drone and public awareness have paid dividends this fire season, with no deaths reported

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Beaver dam
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Fighting fire with beavers: How dam-building rodents are deployed to prevent megafires, restore scorched wildlands

Stretches of river that had beaver dams fared better in three fearsome Colorado fires in 2020. People charged with repairing wildfire damage are taking heed.

The Colorado Sun
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Controlled burning
To combat increasingly dangerous wildfires, fire management practices include controlled burns, also referred to as prescribed burning.